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Henry Fool (1998)
Rating:
Starring: Parker Posey, Thomas Jay Ryan, James Urbaniak
Director: Hal Hartley
Category: Comedy, Independent
Studio: Columbia / TriStar
Subtitles:
English
Length:
138 mins

 
 

 

"A Hilarious Comedy!" - Janet Mastin, The New York Times

Acclaimed writer/director Hal Hartley's (Amateur, Flirt) Henry Fool is a Faustian black comedy that will leave you screaming with laughter at its wild mix of vulgarity, antic humor and deeply-felt-emotion. Intense, nerdy young garbage-man Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) sulks through a sexless, humiliating lower-class existence. He shares a house in Queens, New York, with his clinically depressed mother Mary (Maria Porter) and sarcastic, promiscuous sister Fay (Parker Posey). Into their mundane existence comes Henry Fool (Thomas Jay Ryan), a freewheeling, depraved faux intellectual writer who inspires the repressed Simon to come out of his shell by writing a book-length poem. He also begins an affair with Fay, the two making love at the most awkwardly inappropriate moments. At Henry's goading, Simon timidly peddles his manuscript to an unscrupulous publisher, setting in motion an unforeseen chain of events both tragic and hilarious.

 
 
   
   

 
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